

		HARALD FAIRHAIR, by Markus Eklund
			v. 1.00



According to Icelandic sagas, the first king of Norway was Harald Halvdansson Fairhair. In the 9th century, at the climax of the viking age, Norway was divided into many small kingdoms, or fylkes. Harald was originally king of Vestfold, west of the Fiord of Oslo. By 900 he had conquered all of Norway, and that is what this scenario is about.

INSTALLATION
Create a new directory (I reccomend that you call it "Harald" and put it under the civ2 scenario folder) and put all files in there. Create a new folder called "sound" within this folder and put all sound files in there.


THE TRIBES
There are seven tribes in this scenario, but only VESTFOLD is meant to be played by human. Your first enemy is VINGULMARK, east of the Fiord of Oslo and their allies Romerike and Ringerike in central Norway. TRONDHEIMEN represenet the about 20 independet kingdoms around Trondheim, while MORE and HORDALAND controll the fiordy west coast. In southern Norway lies the mighty kingdom of AGDER. Unlike Norway, SWEDEN is already an united nation. They have occupied Ranerike, the coastal area southeast of the Fiord of Oslo.


UNITS
Spearmen-Defensive unit.
Hirdmen-Normal offensive unit.
Viking-Like the hirdmen, but amphibious.
Berserker-Very good offensive unit, but weak defense.
Horsemen-Fast, but very weak. The vikings where worthless horsemen.

Knarr-Sea Transport.
Longship-Warship.
Dreki-A larger longship.

Skald-Diplomat
Merchant-Caravan

Swedish Guard-Swedish defensive unit, very powerfull.
King-Unique unit owned by your norwaigan enemies. Very powerfull.
Harald, Guttorm etc.-Character units.


SOURCES
This scenarios is completely based on Snorri Sturlasson's Harald Fairhairs' Saga. (I guess that makes the scenario quite un-historical, but there are no other sources that are usefull for making a scenario about this.)

	Markus Eklund, Mars 2000